Graphic Design Tenders and Contracts

Search the portals directly for live briefs, or get in earlier by tracking the buyers who retender design work on a cycle. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one place, so a council design framework and a museum exhibition graphics lot land in the same feed.

Broader than a logo. The work splits into design service frameworks, applied graphics such as vehicle liveries and window or display panels, and exhibition and interpretation graphics for museums and visitor sites. Much of it is bundled with print management, so read the lot structure before assuming which part you can bid for.

The main one is 79822500 (Graphic design services). Two others turn up regularly: 79415200 (Design consultancy services) and 79930000 (Specialty design services). Buyers tag inconsistently, and plenty of on-intent notices carry only a printing code, so treat codes as a starting point rather than a filter.

Volume is high and the live window is narrow. Only a small share of notices matching this filter sit open at any one time, while the majority are already awarded, so the practical route in is getting onto frameworks and knowing who holds the incumbent contract.

Councils, universities, museums and central government departments buy graphic design, mostly through their communications and marketing teams. Design frameworks and design-and-print lots dominate.